Jen Todd
Executive Coach & Leadership Advisor, Lake Orion Michigan
“If leaders know their purpose, and essence and develop their whole selves, they become a powerful “instrument of change” with a great capacity to impact people, systems and the world.”
Jen - The Whole Human
As a powerful coach, Jen works with high-impact leaders around the world in diverse complex sectors of education, corporate, non-profit, global missions, and smaller private firms and start-ups. She is super passionate about coaching educators and school administrators on creating positive change across the complex culture, systems, and leaders that are teaching our future generations.
She is known for creating “life-changing breakthroughs” that translate new insights into major shifts in beliefs and behaviors. Tactically, she helps leaders go beyond basics and be more powerful “instruments of change” increasing their mental, emotional, and intuitive capacities to be more effective and fulfilled. She is passionate about inclusion, respect, and trust, and helping leaders understand their teams, styles, power, and motivation dynamics and walks with them to support their own personal self-awareness and growth journey.
Jen was educated at Michigan State for her Bachelor's in Psychology and at Pepperdine University for her Master’s in Organizational Development. She has continued her education with training and certificates in coaching, and Gestalt organizational and group change. Ready to start a conversation with Jen? Reach out to her here.
Whole Approaches for Leader, Team, and Organizational Purpose
Jen is an Organizational and Leadership Development Coach, focused on looking at the whole system and whole person, or people, functioning in it. With her Organization Development background, she takes strategic and systems view and facilitates groups through personal, team, cultural and organizational transformation. She is a large-scale change and team effectiveness advisor and a Leadership Coach who loves to work one-on-one with executives and senior leaders.
Jen is particularly passionate about working with high-impact visionary leaders, change-makers of complex systems, and entrepreneurs crafting their businesses around the callings in their hearts.
After a full career in Human Resources, Operations, Leadership Development and Organizational Effectiveness for consulting firms and a Fortune 100 company, she felt a deep calling to explore her own purpose.
That journey birthed a personal transformation model to help clients know their true purpose, essence, gifts and what brings them meaning. She offers private and group coaching programs for purpose discovery and creating purpose inspired career paths. She is further equipped to support individuals who are going through personal or professional transition, career of major life change, or recovering from a loss – using their pain for purpose, using “pain for a purpose” is her motto. If you are interested in working with Jen for one or more of her many specialties, reach out here.
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Jen’s Story
Jen lives in Lake Orion, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, with her daughter where they enjoy a circle of friends and family on their lake. Jen began a journey of seeking purpose that led her to start a women’s mission in Africa, adopt her daughter, and birth a more holistic approach to coaching and development. Jen’s perspective on family radically changed when both of her parents passed away within two years of each other. After dealing with this loss, she got certified as Grief Educator Coach and reframed her definition of family to include a community that brings her love, support, and a deep sense of belonging. She says, “family doesn’t have to be biological, instead it's the people you are connected to at the soul level”. Jen is the author of two books. The first, “Daily Nuggets of Truth: Wisdom for Centering Your Soul in Unsettling Times” is 30 days of short powerful centering practices. The second book, “For the Love of Jude”, she wrote with her daughter for children to learn about unconditional love and to memorialize Jen’s mom.
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Jen is a unique and wonderful mix of deeply thoughtful and terribly fun. She is always ready to dig into important conversations, big feelings, and self-reflection. She is fascinated by tracking, observing, and seeing the unseen, like patterns of behavior or deeply held beliefs. But just as readily she is also prepared to pull out her best chips and dip or favorite wine (Chardonnay in the summer and Cab in the winter) and spend the day knees deep in the lake with plenty of laughs and party atmosphere. Jen is a self-proclaimed ‘water-fanatic’. Her perfect day would likely include boating, swimming, laying on the water, and bonfires with her daughter and friends. Her daughter’s nickname is Joyball for the constant energy, life, smiles, and jokes that she pours out. Jen is incredibly connected with her church and through this connection started a women’s mission in Africa that focuses on supporting women and girls through education, business skills, and health and wellness. When asked about her favorite place that she’s ever visited, Jen responds immediately with Kenya, which is where her daughter was born and named after. She calls out the grateful, joyous hearts of the Kenyan people, their beautiful communal culture, and their innate, yet intricate tie to nature as aspects of these people and this place that spurs her love and admiration for Kenya.
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“Thanks to Jen, I more fully engage in my work, create a greater impact, and find deeper fulfillment. Jen’s coaching helped me integrate my mind, heart, and body, focus on intention, and meetings and interactions are more purposeful and productive. I also learned to trust and engage my intuition, enabling me to create more powerful outcomes for my clients.”
Elizabeth Roll Organization Development Consultant
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